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...ones - so the company could easily wind up at a courthouse hundreds of miles away. Likely venues include Wilmington, Del., the state in which GM is incorporated, and New York City, which has a history of landing large out-of-town cases, such as those involving WorldCom and Enron. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...past. When Congress was updating the bankruptcy code in 2005, Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas proposed changes to keep more bankruptcies where companies do most of their business. Cornyn had a history with the issue: as attorney general of Texas, he loudly, though unsuccessfully, argued that the Enron bankruptcy should be moved from New York City to Houston so that workers who lost their jobs could watch and local creditors could more easily file claims. As the law now stands, firms can file bankruptcy where they're headquartered, where they're incorporated or where they have an affiliated company...
...people who would be affected by its bankruptcy, the issues are more prosaic. Consider that scores of suppliers could go under if GM does. Or think of the money owed to hundreds of companies that provide all manner of services to GM. One creditor in the Enron bankruptcy was a local lock-and-safe company; another was an airport car-service firm. Hiring out-of-state lawyers, traveling and staying for months in a city far from home - these might be prohibitive costs to outfits already reeling from GM's fate. "There is no district in this country that...
...Business School reworked its curriculum after the Enron scandal to include a required, full-credit course on corporate accountability. According to Kester, current students also frequently debate ethical dilemmas in other classes...
...Ultimately it was Philip Hilder—the lawyer who had represented the Enron whistleblower Sherron Watkins in Congressional hearings following the company’s collapse—who secured the settlement from Harvard...